tunnels
SayTUN-uhlz/ˈtʌn(ə)lz/
- 1Plural of tunnel.
Engineers inspect the city's subway tunnels every spring for cracks.
The old fortress was riddled with secret escape tunnels.
Note
A regular plural, made with a plain -s and spelled the same in American and British English. The l-doubling that separates British tunnelled from American tunneled affects only suffixes beginning with a vowel. The plural carries every meaning of the singular: road and rail tunnels, the burrows animals dig, the network tunnels that wrap a blocked protocol, and even a funnel or a chimney flue.
tunnels is a form of tunnel
tunnel, noun: An underground or underwater passage, often built for roads, trains, or pedestrians. Full entry
- Forms
- tunneltunnels plural
- Spelling
- tunnel → tunnels: add -s
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